Samuel Drewe

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Samuel Drewe (1759–1837) of Kensington in Middlesex, was Governor of the Bank of England from 1828 to 1830. He had been Deputy Governor from 1826 to 1828. He replaced John Baker Richards as Governor and was succeeded by John Horsley Palmer. [2]

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Origins

He was the 9th son (2nd son by his second marriage) of Francis Drewe (1712–1773) of Grange in the parish of Broadhembury in Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1738, by his second wife Mary Johnson, daughter of Thomas Johnson of London. [3] His sister Mary Drewe (d.1830) married John Fownes Luttrell (1752–1816) of Dunster Castle, MP. [4]

Marriage and children

He married Selina Thackery, [5] by whom he had children as follows:

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References

  1. ↑ Vivian, p.306
  2. ↑ Governors of the Bank of England. Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Bank of England, London, 2013. Archived here. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.308
  4. ↑ Vivian, p.308
  5. ↑ Vivian, p.308
  6. ↑ Vivian, p.308
  7. ↑ Inherited by the Drewe family following the first marriage of Francis Drewe (1712–1773) of Grange to Mary Rose, sole heiress of Thomas Rose (d.1747) of Wootton House, Sheriff of Dorset
  8. ↑ Vivian, p.308
  9. ↑ Vivian, p.308


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